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Workpapers - Only view related documents within a worksheet
Showing all documents uploaded when you are in individual Worksheet is too much noise. We only need to see the uploaded documents relating to that specific Worksheet not the full Workpaper pack.
5 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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A1: Financial Statements & Tax Return - Ability to review and approve sections like in old workpapers
We are experiencing a significant workflow issue with the layout and functionality of A1 – Financial Statements & Tax Return in the new Xero Workpapers.
How We Used This Section in the Previous Workpaper Pack
In the previous version, this section functioned as our final review and sign-off hub. It included structured default notes such as:
Financial Statements
Company/Trust Tax Return
Individual Tax Returns
Final Email to Client
This setup allowed us to:
Upload final versions of each document
Review each document individually
Add review notes directly against that specific document
Tick off and approve each item only once it…
5 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Workpapers Spreadsheet - formatting, cell selection, size of sheet
Can the spreadsheet have more formatting options - like borders so that you can have a top and bottom border on a total cell? Bold type?
Also, it needs more functionality like being able to select the range of cells to sum =sum(select cells using mouse) instead of manually typing in the range.
When you copy and paste from Excel formatting is lost and you cannot add additional lines past where the data pastes if past row 20 (The data itself can paste to additional rows). If data goes to row 19, you cannot insert additional lines past 20 either.
18 votesHi community, appreciate the desire for more formatting in new Workpapers and this is something our product team would like to explore more but with a few other items in the pipeline atm isn't road mapped just yet.
We'll continue to gauge the interest in this idea and as soon as there are updates I'll share with you all, here.
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Workpapers - Status per Account for reveiw
Preparers cannot flag status per account — status applies to the whole category. While notes can be added per account, it’s not easy to see which are ready for review and which ones are with queries.
15 votesHey April, thanks for raising this idea as well, your continued commitment to bringing these points to us are always appreciated. This will be assessed by our product team. 🕵️
Once they've reviewed the idea we'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.
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New Xero Workpapers - Income Tax workpaper - fix Net profit link (doesn't factor in trust distributions)
The Net profit amount that pulls through to Xero Workpapers treats trust distributions to beneficiaries as expenses. They should be excluded (as it does with Income Tax Expense and Dividends Paid).
7 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Ability to add our practice workpapers each year
Prefer to have one set of workpapers completed in a single software. Within Xero workpapers have ability to attach excel template to specific workpapers for completion eg live stock workpaper, overdrawn current account, hire purchase workpaper, etc.
The most important workpapers have calculations that are required outside of verifying an account balance. Eg those mentioned above.
If unable to have all workpapers in one place, it's easier to stay with current excel pack.7 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Show if Xero period is locked
It would be good to visibly show the period Xero is locked up to. As a reviewer I want to know Xero is left locked without leaving workpapers to check.
5 votesThanks for submitting your idea on Xero Product Ideas. We appreciate you taking time to let us know how we could improve Xero for you.
Your feedback will soon be reviewed by our Community team, and in the meantime this can begin to build support with votes from other community members.
If you're interested to see recent releases or get a pulse on what's coming soon see The Long and Short of it. 🙂
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Workpapers - Fix Income Tax workpaper that incorrectly shows current year June PAYG installment
Despite the fact I raised this years ago, it was ignored when building the new Workpapers (ironically, this workpaper is one of the few that mimics the original Workpapers layout).
The Income Tax workpaper (attached):
a. correctly shows 4 x current year PAYG Instalments in the 2025 Tax to pay/(refund) section
b. correctly shows the prior year June PAYG Instalment in the Balance sheet income tax reconciliation section
c. incorrectly automatically includes the current year June PAYG Instalment (copied from the section above), in the Balance sheet income tax reconciliation section99.99% of the time, the prior year June…
9 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Workpapers - Show attachments in Supporting Documents section
When documents are attached to line items, could they please also show in the Supporting documents section? Currently, they only appear again if you click the line item.
For example, on the Bank Reconciliation workpaper, a statement has been attached to each bank account line, but when the workpaper is opened again, you only know something is attached due to the icon under Actions. You have to click on the line item for the supporting document to appear below (which isn't intuitive).
Everything attached should show in the Supporting documents section, as per the old Workpapers.
7 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Workpapers - Post a journal without creating a draft
Manual journals have to be saved as a draft first. Then they need to be edited to be posted. This is an unnecessary step. Or if it is required, it should be role based.
15 votesWe appreciate the support this idea is receiving and will continue to monitor feedback this receives for consideration in future planning.
I'll make sure to share if there's any progress for you all here.
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Workpapers - if we're going to be splitting up the P&L accounts.. EXP.DIS accounts should not be on the Expenses workpaper
Profit distribution accounts might have an EXP in the report code (and Xero might force us to use Expenses as the account type in Xero).. but they're not expenses.
Xero has split Revenue, COGS and Expenses across three workpapers.. but still lumped profit distribution accounts in Expenses.
10 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Problems with being a Reviewer using the New Workpapers
Reviewing Workpapers - when reviewing the file I have found two problems - first - when scrolling through the various workpapers using the arrow keys in the top right- it is including ones that are essentially excluded from needing to be completed - i.e. the shaded out ones on the front. 2nd - I have to click into each attachment - rather than using an arrown key to see each seperate attachment like we do at the moment.
6 votesHi team, we really appreciate the feedback from you here and the issues for Reviewers that you've raised. We've made some recent changes and are really keen to hear if these improvements have solved for your needs.
Now;
- when using the arrow keys in the top right to navigate between worksheets, those marked as Not applicable are now automatically skipped
- When viewing attachments, you can use the arrow key button at the bottom of the attachment to move between files (screenshot below)
Let us know if these changes have been of benefit!
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New Workpapers - Add sub-headings in checklist section
Ability to add in the checklist section more description/content in the checklist section of the workpaper lines. This would allow us to include essential sections required by the CPA, like Engagement Acceptance/Continuance and Knowledge of the Entity. I built these in the classic Workpapers. Too bad I can't carry over the Workpapers lines I built in the classic version. I attached a screenshot of one section in classic Workpapers showing a line, the guidance and comments.
5 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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Workpapers | Income Tax - Reduce column width in L
A little UI matter, I know the column widths will scale depending on the window size; however, when I go into the Income Tax workpaper, the spacing seems quite wide even in a smaller split-screen window. It would be nice if the column widths were narrower
11 votesAppreciate the feedback, Adam. Our product team are staying close to the feedback we're receiving on the new workpapers solution so I'll keep you updated hear if there is any change planned. For now we'll get a sense of others in community that support this too. Thanks
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Workpapers | Accounts receivable hotlink - link to summary report for reviewers
The current account receivables hotlink is the detailed report for Accounts receivable which can be very busy - ideally the summary report would be better for Reviewers who don't need to see the individual invoice level of detail.
4 votesHi 👋 your idea is being looked into by our Community team. We'll be in touch soon to update you once your idea has been reviewed.
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New Workpapers - Export to a ZIP file
The export produces a single PDF. It would be preferable if the export could instead provide a ZIP file containing the individual documents.
11 votesHi April, thanks for bringing this idea to our attention. Again your contributions are greatly appreciated in this process. Your idea is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️ We'll share the outcome and update everyone, here, once they've reviewed the idea.
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Workpapers - Create groups for Workpapers
Is there a way that we could create a group or a link to all groups within workpapers
14 votesThanks for sharing your idea, Michaella! It's great to hear what improvements would help in new Workpapers.
We'd like to gauge the interest from others in this here and I'll let you know if any plans are made for groups.
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Workpapers - Manual Journal show full history of edits
The system currently does not display who posted the journal in either XWP or Xero (specific user).
Updates made to journals in Xero are not reflected in the XWP Manual Journal Summary.
Additionally, XWP only allows journals to be voided—there is no option to delete them.
10 votesThanks for your feedback around this functionality in the new Workpapers experience, we really appreciate the time taken to add your thoughts. Your idea is now being assessed by our product team. 🕵️
Once they've reviewed the idea we'll share the outcome and update everyone, here.
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Workpapers | Manual Journals - don't automatically mark as Cash Basis
Journals (General Journals, Manual Journals) are inherently an ACCRUALS transaction. Not cash.
Manual Journals can't be recorded against a bank account in Xero.
Manual Journals should NOT be Cash Basis by default. They should be Accruals ONLY, by default. Xero should give you the OPTION to include your Manual Journals on cash based reports.
7 votesHi team, appreciate this idea is specifically around how you can process Manual Journals within new Xero Workpapers.
Right now the selection of whether to show a journal on cash basis reports is only available when posting Manual journals within an organisation at present.
Our product team are still making improvements within the new Workpapers experience and using feedback from the forums here to inform their roadmap.
This isn't planned at present, but I'll be sure to let you know if there are any plans made around enabling this selection within our new Xero Workpapers solution, here.
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Workpapers - More options for Comparison Period
When preparing monthly or quarterly workpapers, we would like to be able to select the comparison period as last month, quarter or end of last financial year. Not just the same period last year.
10 votesHi Susan, great to hear your feedback on the comparison periods in Workpapers here.
As we continue to develop this new product we're keeping a keen eye on the interest ideas in this forum are building and I'll let you know if there are any changes planned for this, here.
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